by Karen Peterman | Nov 28, 2022 | Publications
Introduction This blog post demonstrates the value of beginning to study informal science learning (ISL) participants and visitors based on intersectional identities. Intersectionality is the idea that human characteristics such as race and/or ethnicity, gender,...
by Karen Peterman | Jul 13, 2018 | Publications
Over the past few years I have had the pleasure and the frustration of puzzling through when and how to use off-the-shelf measures for evaluation. I’m a huge fan of off-the-shelf measures that have validation evidence to support their use. Here’s the logic behind my...
by Jane Robertson | Nov 10, 2017 | Publications
How do scientists engage with the public and how effective are they in those interactions? Now more than ever, effective science communication is vital for the public discourse. KPC and collaborators recently published an article about validating a scale to measure...
by Karen Peterman | Sep 27, 2017 | Publications
It has been a fun month at KPC, as we found out that both of the scientist scales that we developed for AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) will soon be published. I’m thrilled that AAAS’s recent work might catalyze practitioners and evaluators...
by Karen Peterman | Sep 27, 2017 | Publications
I don’t know, honestly. It just is! Creating reports that people will actually read (and then use) is a tricky business. At the end of the day, a report has to meet people where they are. For some, that means staying in their comfort zone or within the comfort...
by Karen Peterman | Jun 6, 2014 | Publications
The spring 2014 edition of The Journal of Technology Education features an article from KPC! We used data our evaluation of the UCSD ScienceBridge program’s Tech Sites to conduct a path analysis to determine whether/how attitudinal and self-reported proficiency...
